One article that was just posted on Monday caught my eye. It gives details of the lawsuits against the Army Corp of Engineers for 3 quadrillion dollars. Yep. That's $3,013,283,057,589,910, to be exact. And no cents. Crazy huh? I can't even fathom a number like that. From what I understand, the residents of New Orleans have to file a Form 95 claiming their suit against the government. The residents are told that they will not be able to get one dollar more than what they claim. They are asked to put down a high number. 3 quadrillion is a high number. LOL.In any other case, I suppose I would say that the person who claimed this was crazy. That maybe they are just money-grubbing and looking to cash in on a catastrophe. The problem is, the government admitted that the levees failed due to poor engineering. That the levees, when they were built, were only meant to withstand a category 3 hurricane, not a category 4 or 5 like Katrina was. They admitted it. They messed up. Im sure after being on a rooftop for days on end, and with the levees failing due to poor engineering,and maybe losing a loved one during the storm, that frustration and anger increases exponentially. I can't even fathom the mounting anger that one would feel. So is 3 quadrillion dollars a little high? Not in the minds of the victims. Not in the minds of those the government failed. We will see here in the future how the lawsuits play out. All I DO know is that this will be the costliest U.S. disaster ever.
One side note. The U.S. debt at this moment is 13.2 trillion and change. 3 quadrillion just makes that number looks so tiny.
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There's the terror of the huuricane, the horror of the levee giving way, the agony of sitting on your rooftop while you watch your entire life destroyed by the water, the likelihood that they have lost family and/or beloved pets, and then - after all of that - they cannot come home or rebuild. I am like you, I cannot imagine.
Good points. I can't imagine it at all. What the agony of the whole situation. Losing everything. And just waiting.
3quadrillion seems like a lot. But the catastrophic element of it all seems much bigger than a dollar figure.
and of course, I can't spell.... it was supposed to be hurricane...
You are right, there is no dollar amount you can put on life.
As to my "profound words" -- I am hoping that's not what it means! All I could think of is when I was a teenager and I would rush home from high school, change clothes, put on fresh make up, primp a little and then Mom would say, "You're not going anywhere!" LOL
The funny thing is, i never realized you misspelled hurricane til you mentioned it. HAHA
I guess everyone takes away a different meaning of things.
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